Zoo are you born or are you made?

[Zalanthe]

I feel like this question only makes sense on a premise which isn't absolute. There's no basis for the traits that has you considered a zoophile to be abnormal, only the situation and application of them that goes against a set cultural norm. So based on that, I'd say that they are made in all cases. In fact, I'd say this goes for far more than just this, but pretty much all sexuality is rooted in nurture, while nature only weighs the dice towards certain outcomes.

 

[KnottyNomad]

I might have said this somewhere else but I've always felt at least personally that it's a combination of the two. I don't think I would have been interested in animals if there wasn't something about me that allowed me to find animals attractive. That being said though I also think your environment and the experiences you have are usually what pushes you over the edge. Without those I feel like it would just stay dormant for lack of a better term.

 

[knottedhorsepenis]

I might have said this somewhere else but I've always felt at least personally that it's a combination of the two. I don't think I would have been interested in animals if there wasn't something about me that allowed me to find animals attractive. That being said though I also think your environment and the experiences you have are usually what pushes you over the edge. Without those I feel like it would just stay dormant for lack of a better term.

agree 100%

 

[setian9966]

Been attracted to animals since I was a child so I’d say born

 

[Adder]

In my opinion zoophilia as a sexual orientation is either a genetic disorder. This idea is based on research showing actually measurable and visible physical differences between a homosexual brain and a normal heterosexual brain.
Or it is a developmental mistake that comes to be as a person matures.
In all cases it is not normal, since it does not lead to reproduction. It is a dead end and a mistake that a species can afford because it happens rarely enough so that it does not have a significant effect on our survivability.

I forget her name, but there is a woman on here that claims to come from a long line of zoo's. Do you remember who it is? Anyway, as long as they still have children it is not a dead end, and I would definitely have children with a woman who is attracted to animals.

 

[Zinkso]

for me it is like 50/50.
I always loved animals wanted to pet them and cuddle them all, but atracted to human girls, so kinda normal.
well, my peers was treating me like shit, or in better case like i was invisible. It was another rejection by girl in "how you can think anyone will love you" style, and was calming down by petting, and i was thinking how animals are nice to me, they trust me, i can trust them.
then came insight, it was helped also by my girl, she was in heat and was pushing her pussy in my face, until then i was like blind to this, from that moment i saw her like horny girl atracted to me.
my universe expanded in that moment.

 

[amorousdog5]

Zoophilia is mentioned prominently in Greek and Roman mythology. Whenever it's mentioned, it usually it involved a figure that Greeks and Romans respected. I have no idea what the average Greek or Roman citizen thought of zoophilia, but since the gods they worshipped partook in it, I think that maybe it wasn't taboo with the majority at the time?

I'm not sure I agree with this. Most of those myths, including for example the myth from which you take your name, involve not sex with an actual animal, but sex with Zeus in animal form.

Aside from that I can recall the story of Centaurus. He was born of the union between Ixion and the fake Hera. Ixion was expelled from Olympus for having sex with what he had thought was the real Hera, and blasted with a thunderbolt as well. Centaurus was therefore born of a shameful union, and is not exactly a positive figure. As such his subsequent bestiality with the mares of the Magnesian plains is not exactly a positive act, further emphasized by the fact that it gives birth to a race known for their barbarism.

There is also the story of Pasiphaë, the queen of Crete. Her husband king Minos refused to sacrifice a beautiful white bull to Poseidon, instead opting to keep it for himself. As a punishment, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë to fall in love with a bull. Their union gave birth to the monstrous Minotaur, who devoured humans for sustenance. I trust I don't have to explain any further why this does not show bestiality in a positive light.

 

[amorousdog5]

You have a point... but those were still mainstream stories at the time, right? How often do you see a movie or a tv show casually have a main character who has sex with animals? It makes me think that people weren't too shocked to hear about it at the time, and so would be less taboo, or not taboo at all.

Less taboo I can believe.